Scribes and the presentation of texts (from antiquity to c. 1550)
Subtitle: proceedings of the 20th Colloquium of the Comité international de paléographie latine, Beinecke Rare Book & Manuscript Library, Yale University (New Haven, September 6-8, 2017)
By: co-editors, Barbara A. Shailor and C.W. Dutschke ; assistant editors, Kyle Conrau-Lewis, Kristen Herdman, Carson Koepke and Alexander Peña
Contributors: Shailor, Barbara A., 1948- editor; Dutschke, C. W., editor; Conrau-Lewis, Kyle, editor; Herdman, Kristen, 1988- editor; Koepke, Carson, editor; Peña, Alexander (Medievalist), editor; Zamponi, Stefano, contributor; Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library
Series: Bibliologia : elementa ad librorum studia pertinentia -- volume 65; Bibliologia (Turnhout, Belgium) -- v. 65.
Publisher: Brepols
Published: 2021
Place of publication: Turnhout, Belgium
Language: eng
Number of pages: 602
ISBN-13: 9782503595160; 9782503595627
Copyright date: 2021
Subjects: Scribes; Congresses; Scriptoria; Manuscript design; History; Transmission of texts; Manuscripts, Latin (Medieval and modern); Medieval Manuscripts; Renaissance Manuscripts; Manuscripts; Congrès; Histoire; Bible
Description: Scribes played complex, often overlooked roles in the production of hand-written texts across Antiquity, the Middle Ages, and the Renaissance.  Some scribes simply copied the exemplar; other scribes participated with authors and decorators in establishing the mise-en-page and overall appearance of a text.  Many decisions needed to be made regarding the selection of text script; the style of rubrication, display scripts, and initials; the placement and execution of potentially elaborate illuminated images.  What was the role of the scribe in contributing to the decision-making process or in determining the final format and material appearance of a document, scroll or codex?This volume explores many of the choices that a single scribe or groups of scribes would need to make when writing and presenting a text, whether in a monastic, cathedral or lay setting. The articles in the volume range from case studies of a single artifact to the analysis of multiple copies and versions of a particular text.The authors include eminent specialists in the field of manuscript studies as well as mid- and early career scholars. --

"Scribes played complex, often overlooked roles in the production of hand-written texts across Antiquity, the Middle Ages, and the Renaissance. Some scribes simply copied the exemplar; other scribes participated with authors and decorators in establishing the mise-en-page and overall appearance of a text. Many decisions needed to be made regarding the selection of text script; the style of rubrication, display scripts, and initials; the placement and execution of potentially elaborate illuminated images. What was the role of the scribe in contributing to the decision-making process or in determining the final format and material appearance of a document, scroll or codex? This volume explores many of the choices that a single scribe or groups of scribes would need to make when writing and presenting a text, whether in a monastic, cathedral or lay setting. The articles in the volume range from case studies of a single artifact to the analysis of multiple copies and versions of a particular text. The authors include eminent specialists in the field of manuscript studies as well as mid- and early career scholars." --
Notes: The keynote address by Stefano Zamponi is presented in the original Italian, preceded by an English translation.

Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

16 contributions in English, 4 in Italian, 3 in French, and 2 in Spanish. Includes abstracts in the language of the contribution.
Table of contents: title: Keynote:; title: The papyri of Dura Europos in the history of Latin script = I papiri di Dura Europos nella storia della scrittura latina  -- Stefano Zamponi; title: Il manoscritto latino di contenuto giuridico tra Antichità e Medioevo: strategie distintive e conservatorismo grafico da Oriente a Occidente  -- Serena Ammirati; title: Making, writing and decorating the Bible: Montecassino, a case study  -- Marilena Maniaci & Giulia Orofino; title: The shaping of the Latin classics in fourteenth-century Italy  -- Irene Ceccherini; title: The rhetoric of textual presentation in manuscripts of the Anglo-Norman prose Brut chronicle: when foundation stories collide  -- Julia Marvin; title: Categories of promoters and categories of writings: the free will of the scribes, cause of formal graphic differences  -- Jesús Alturo & Tania Alaix; title: Decision-making and workflow in the making of Exon Domesday  -- Francisco Alvarez López & Julia Crick; title: Lay scribes before c. 1100: books, texts, scripts  -- Laua Pani; title: Présentation des textes, discours diplomatique et "responsables de la transcription des actes" aux xe et xie siècles: quelques chartes clunisiennes  -- Sébastien Barret; title: Authors, scribes and librarians: literary estates in Germany in the fifteenth and early sixteenth century  -- Eef Overgaauw; title: Half-uncial scripts: a way of presenting texts  -- David Ganz; title: Mass by design: design elements in early Italian Mass books  -- Andrew J. M. Irving; title: Las rúbricas en los cócices medievales de los reinos de León y Castilla (siglos xii-xv)  -- Elena E. Rodriguez Diaz; title: L'ordinatio dans les manuscrits de compilation  -- Thomas Falmagne; title: Il prologo tra autore, scriba e manoscritto: indagini su uso e funzione di un particolare paratesto in codici della Herzog August Bibliothek, Wolfenbüttel, e della Niedersächsische Statts- und Universitätsbibliothek, Göttingen  -- Patrizia Carmassi; title: Du Roman de la rose aux livres d'heures: étudier et comprendre les écritures de colophons  -- Dominique Stutzmann; title: Dall'ars scripta all'ars figurata: Raimondo Lullo (1232-1316) e la tradizione figurata dell'ars combinatoria  -- Gabriella Pomaro; title: The manifold manifestations of A tous nobles: decoration and diversity in a French genealogical chronicle  -- Marigold Anne Norbye; title: God speaks Czech: some reflections on layout, script and image in Czech Bibles of the fifteenth century  -- Maria Theisen; title: Nota and Require: the oldest Western annotation symbols and their dissemination in the early Middle Ages  -- Evina Steinová; title: Reading early medieval miscellanies  -- Anna Dorofeeva; title: The script of Matthew Paris and his collaborators (c.1200-1259): a multi-methodological approach  -- Manuel Muñoz Garcia; title: La presentación de los Textos en las Profesiones Religiousas del Monasterio de San Martin Pinario (Santiago De Compostela) en el Siglo XVI  -- Adrián Ares Legaspi; title: The archaelogy [i.e. archaeology] of the book and the alchemy of Cracow -- Agnieszka Rec.